Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding
This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero
Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway
I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948
I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis